One cold January evening, three young royals dined at a palatial mansion in Allahabad, now Prayagraj, in 1911, around the time the British administrative centre witnessed an historic event.

The city, located at the confluence of the Ganga and the Yamuna rivers, was the venue of what came to be known as the Allahabad Exhibition of 1911, inaugurated on December 1, 1910, by John Hewett, the British lieutenant governor of the United Provinces.

On display at the exhibition, which ran till February 1911, were crafts and technology from around the world, including stalls – or rather Mughal- and Rajasthani-architecture-inspired pavilions – that hosted German Engineering Works, British manufacturers of agricultural equipment and domestic machinery and the artworks of Abanindranath Tagore.

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